Dec 15: Things We’ve Been Known to Take for Granted

After a few weeks in a much simpler environment, these are some of the things we’ve noticed that we used to take for granted:

Our Work Crew

Clean floors

Quietness

Not having to go from store to store to find everyday items

Water pressure

Warm water

Drinking water

Roofs that don’t leak

Houses sealed from bugs

Lights (electricity)

Putting dirty toilet paper in the toilet

Paved streets

Dinner

Today we shared our lunch with three or four local boys and after lunch they washed all the dishes and washed our floors! They definitely don’t take our food for granted. After lunch it started to pour and our roof was leaking in at least 5 different places. One of the boys showed us how to use a bar of soap to plug the holes. It worked like a charm and our roof is now sealed right up.

[…] At the same time our house has been showing some of its lack of being water proof. Although our soap patches are holding out fine, some of our rafters appear to be water logged and are starting to drip down […]